July 27, 2025 • 20 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
Around god City and in the territory on West. There
is just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers.
And that's where the US Marshal and the smell of
guns smoke, Gun Smoke, presented by Army in Europe Magazine,
(00:31):
a monthly feature magazine for the use of a soldier
and civilians Starrying William Conrad, the story of the violin
that moved west with Young America.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
And the story of a man who moved with him.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
I'm that man, Matt Dillon, United States Marshall, the first
man they looked for and the less they want to meet.
It's a chance at job, but it makes a man
watchful and a little lone man.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
Who bring anything.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Alright, you sing out.
Speaker 5 (01:25):
If you want me, I'll be overhead with hi.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
You do well, kidny.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
It appears I'm not an invisible man.
Speaker 6 (01:36):
After all.
Speaker 5 (01:38):
I wasn't ignoring you, Doc, I was just too busy,
as thou art old, and it's not my advanced age
in state of detripeture.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
Well, he'll never get old, Doc.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
It to arn me. Used to hope I don't get
so old.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
A pretty girl won't say that too, whether she means it.
Speaker 5 (01:52):
Another oh I damn man, it provided I am one
of the three. Once you're talking to.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
One of them, kiddy, you are the most beautiful.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Yeay that you and me are gonna have a drink.
Speaker 5 (02:02):
How lucky fink I put a twife in the last
dollar and leave me alone.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Don't you call me Simon just a killer? You keep
your pants on that chair, old timer, and you keep
your mouth old turble wise.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
I can make it easy about it.
Speaker 5 (02:15):
Look meet it, kids, before you get into trouble.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
I said we're gonna have a drink and her ideals.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Now come on, let go.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
I mean somebody having a little trouble here's mad.
Speaker 5 (02:26):
Will you tell him to leave me alone?
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Lady says, keep your hands off, kidd.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Now, don't you start calling meat kid?
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Now, what's your name?
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Brabble?
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Just brabble, that's all yah know? And die? Don't you
any law against it? And not unless you keep act
in the way you were a minute ago. What do
you want me to do? Kiddy?
Speaker 5 (02:47):
Just get him out of here. He hasn't got enough
sense to take no for an answer.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
You hurt her brother. You better go someplace else.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
You think you can push people around? Don't you just
because you're the law.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Nobody's pushing him.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
You all think get pretty smart calling me kid and
run along. Study Maybe I ain't fixing the run. Now
what do you think about that?
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Brother?
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Oh, you better quit over your head.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
I don't appear to you.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Nobody asked, and I'll prove it to you.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
I did prove it to all of mine, and you
go ahead and improved it. But right, brother, you move
your hand any closer to that gun and I'll slap
the teeth right out.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Of your head.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
You afraid to draw against me, Marshall, Now you.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Half baked young idiot. Now you give me that gun.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Git back.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
You ain't gonna treat me like no kid.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
I told you they keep your hand away, all right?
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Get up, bro, Oh you're not hurt. Come I get up.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Keep give me my gun.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
You come around in the morning, you can have it back.
By that you're cooled off, you can show a little sense.
You made a big mistake, Marshals. You should have drawn on.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
I mean when you had the chance.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
It'll look different to you in the morning. Brother. Now
you'll go somewhere and sleep it off.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Now, sure, run along, sonny, Is that what you're saying?
And I'll tell you something, all of you, you're gonna
be whistling a different tune before I leave this town.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
You just wait and see.
Speaker 6 (04:29):
You gonna be a.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Mighty storry man, Marshall before I'm through. See, i'd hate
and meet run like that very often.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Man. Oh yeah, he's a scared kid, duck, that's what's
wrong with him. And he's scared mostly that somebody will
find it out.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
What chances are you leave town about even coming around
to get his guns?
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Now, kiddy, he'll be around to get it before he
leaves down.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
He'll use it right, What do you mean, man, use
it on the whole be more likely?
Speaker 3 (05:28):
You know what you's done?
Speaker 7 (05:29):
Spot at night like this is the best time of
the whole day.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
My great Chester does look better and the tacting well.
Speaker 7 (05:38):
Yes, or but it ain't only that things clapped down,
But this time night folks goes to bed and kind
of put their meanness away.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
For a while.
Speaker 7 (05:48):
Maybe some of 'em do does get the chance to settle.
The breeze comes in off the prairie all fresh and cool,
the stars comes out, the moon right is one way Chester?
Speaker 2 (06:01):
What's the many? Had I heard something?
Speaker 7 (06:04):
M had you hear that h anything like somebody grown
in there. I come on, uh, who look uh somebody
laying away on the ground.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Huh uh uh huh, that's strike a match Chester. W
Y's right. And then.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Why that Walley Stirk, Yeah, looks like he's coming around.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Walley. Huh mm. Wally Matt Tella that you alright? Mm? Wally?
Can you hear me? Wallach uh marshal Yeah, what happened?
I don't know. Somebody hit me back to the head
or who was it?
Speaker 5 (06:51):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Oh, it was in the Long Branch when poker and
I come out and they started down the street.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Be my money? Where is my money?
Speaker 3 (07:07):
I had more than a hundred dollars. I wonder that
poker game.
Speaker 7 (07:11):
Well, the way your pocket just turned inside out, I
doubt you got it.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
Now.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Somebody was laying for me out here in the dark,
and that share looks that way, and I didn't know
it better than this stuff. And talk to talk to
who Gene Prebble. She stopped me and started making up
to me and let somebody slug it from behind it.
That's right, and that's happened around there before.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
You know. There's a lot of little tricks like that.
It means she set me.
Speaker 7 (07:40):
Up for it, like I passed them up a tree there.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
You think you can stand up on me? Yeah, I
just think so.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Said right now, I bet the man had done. It's
that fella she's been hanging around with her lately. My fella,
I know some young whipper's nupper calls himself Robbo.
Speaker 7 (08:20):
We see it, miss noon?
Speaker 2 (08:21):
How a lot of ladies set the third door back?
That the land lady's a caution? How it was that
kind of a place? Chester?
Speaker 3 (08:30):
My?
Speaker 6 (08:34):
Yeah, what is it?
Speaker 3 (08:35):
It's Marshall Dell and I wanna talk to you. Jena
just met you better stand back Chester.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
You may be in there with her, yes.
Speaker 6 (08:44):
Sure, well, ain't every day the Marshall come calling on
a girl.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
You might have wait? Come in, Jenna.
Speaker 6 (08:59):
Well, Marshall, thank you?
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Uh you hear a lit gina? Who you talking to?
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Oh? Hello? Brother? And would you let him in for just.
Speaker 8 (09:15):
Come in Bob?
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (09:16):
I I couldn't do nothing.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
What's the idea of Marshall? Which one of you has
the money? What money? The money you took from Wallace Stark?
Speaker 8 (09:23):
We don't know nothing about that.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
What are you up to? Marshall?
Speaker 3 (09:26):
You made a mistake, doesn't vir Jinna. Wally Stek knows you.
You always used to pick strangers when you were working
at with your old partner.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
What's he talking about.
Speaker 6 (09:34):
I don't know, Bobo. I don't know nothing about what
partner noboud.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
His name was Big Rad.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Jenny was pretty friendly with him til I run him
out of town last year.
Speaker 8 (09:44):
Well, I didn't know what kind of man you was.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Didn't ji Jina?
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Where'd you go tonight when you was out so long?
Speaker 6 (09:51):
No place id I just talked to them friends like
I told you, weren't.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
You were her brother?
Speaker 5 (09:55):
No?
Speaker 2 (09:55):
I wasn't.
Speaker 8 (09:58):
What friends, Gina, just some some girls I know that
worked down at the Long Branch and some other places
down the street.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
You weren't in the Long Branch when you ran in
the Walley's Stirk. You were in the alley.
Speaker 6 (10:08):
I'd been there though.
Speaker 8 (10:09):
I I I was coming home taking the short cutting.
Speaker 6 (10:12):
Wally stopped me.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Uh uh, he says, you stopped him.
Speaker 8 (10:16):
I I just said hello, and he he wanted to talk.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
And while you were talking to him, somebody stepped up
behind and slugged him in the back of the head.
Speaker 6 (10:23):
I don't know nothing about that, Marshall.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
You were there, say it was dark.
Speaker 8 (10:27):
I I didn't see nothing.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
It wasn't that dark. I know that Jenna.
Speaker 6 (10:35):
He'd kill me.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
He said he'd kill me if I told anybody who
was gonna kill you?
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Now, what are you talking about it?
Speaker 8 (10:40):
I didn't want nothing to do with him, Barbera, Honestly
I didn't. I was scared to death when I heard
he was back. And then he found me and he
threatened me.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
It made big red.
Speaker 8 (10:48):
Uh he'll kill me if he knows I told you.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
You know where he is now?
Speaker 5 (10:55):
Yeah, you rocking the little sneeze.
Speaker 6 (10:58):
You didn't know him.
Speaker 8 (10:59):
Braba, Oh he top and he and he's mean and
you're just the kid. And I didn't want you to
get hurried out of here.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Ester take her outside.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
Uh, this is mom, Bubble, get out to me yet.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Go on, you know I'll be out in a minute.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
All right, Marshall, you know you pushed me just as
far as you're going to.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Marshall.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Now, you made it so I'll be a laughing stock
all over town.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
You're shouldn't have taken up with a girl like her brother,
and you shouldn't have been born. I'm gonna prove that
to you.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Michall, it's the last thing I ever do.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
And her brother, the next time you make a move
to her that kind of yours, it probably will be
the last thing you ever do.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
You're gonna pay, Michell, and you're gonna pay plenty. I'll
show you what I am.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
You don't have to show me, brother, I already know
(12:09):
it's cards. He's so mad.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
Hey, you wanted to play another game? Mad talk?
Speaker 2 (12:13):
How many times do I have to beat you before
your kids up?
Speaker 7 (12:16):
When the cards been running against that's oh, sugar, just.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
One more man, alright, go ahead and be able. Ah, yeah, sir,
that's sir. Do you mind going over to Sam's Ways
and bringing some supper for the prisoner?
Speaker 7 (12:27):
Oh? I should oh uh be all right to get
eat a little smack alling that, Yes.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
M let's you see.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
And then he got locked up mat a man called
Big Red. He's waiting trial for robbing while they stir
a couple.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Of days ago. M m oh, yes, just heard about that. Yeah,
I figure he'll be convicted on the evidence. He should
have been sent up years ago. Mm no ah, uh
you look at this hand now, that should be a
good one. Dark you doubt it? Yeah, y you claim,
and I stacked or not yet. Just wait til the
other hand turns up.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
And if it's us that your poor loser, O, my boy,
I haven't lost yet.
Speaker 6 (13:07):
Uh they're sure going to.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Her though, whenever the hand I've got here, that was
our back mass.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
You stay here, doctor, I watch it out.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Hold it, Marshall, cause right way, uh, brother him to
turn around.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
He's the gun I got in the back, and I'll
take that gun. Ain't yours? You know? Mine really up
to brother, I'm right.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Out to night, Marshall, and I'm even in this town
something to remember me by. I just killed big ready well,
I shot him through the cell winder, just like a
jetting prairie dog, you crazy fool. And now I'm gonna
pull down a show for the boys at the Long Branch.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
I'm gonna make that Marshall dance for you.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
I've given you the older chance. I'm going to brovo.
You had your last one and.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
You forgot something, Martial.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
It's a gun I'm holding in your back. Now, stop walking,
(14:33):
just keep walking, Marshally.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
You havn't done a rough road, Brobo. This is about
your last chance to turn back straight ahead. You're a fool. Kid.
Don't you call me kid?
Speaker 1 (14:44):
And after what I'm doing tonight, go on, HESI You're
good forget that night quick five.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
I don't ask back you back.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
To say girls went along girly. Maybe I'll my time
for you later.
Speaker 5 (15:08):
Look, brother, I didn't mean what I sat there other night.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
I ain't to let him go. He did.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Look you and meet me that I have and go
somewhere with me. Doctor, I don't want your opportune.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
I'll be there.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
You better know where this kid is. Right train ahead,
Marshall right open in the middle of a story.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
We want them all to get a good look at this.
I'm gonna show him something they won't forget. Well they
started to do real fine.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
Written and everybody listen.
Speaker 6 (15:44):
I got something to show you, ma'am.
Speaker 8 (15:48):
You all know this man, but I.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Bet you didn't know he could dance, now, didn't I
got the Marshall right where I wanted.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
You know something.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
He don't even look half way big no more?
Speaker 2 (16:07):
All right, stay back, everybody. He just killed big Red.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
You all thought I was a kid.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
What do you think now?
Speaker 2 (16:16):
I'd still think it, brother, and a scared one of
the boot. You shut up, Marshall. You killed big Red.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
But why don't you tell him how he shut him
through the cell window. Big Red didn't have a gun.
That's how brave this kid is. Stopped calling me that,
and he ambushed me, hitting the dark and stuck a
gun in my back. You sure asking for I hadn't
shoot kid? He wanted to prove something to him. That'll
prove plenty. An unarmed man in the back, you're a
(16:45):
sneak any other coward?
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Brother, you shut up? You want him to remember you?
They will, all right, They will hang a name on
you before you even get out of town. Shot two
men in the back because he was afraid to stand
up and call him.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
I ain't afraid, all right, prove it.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
Then you put my gone back in our horseter and
you have to stand up and face mate.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
You think I'm crazy?
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Now, I just like get scared, and so does everybody
else here. Have to lie or look at 'em that.
You tell alright, alright, there's your gun.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
And then you turn around, not till I get across
the room.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Don't you move till I get old with you.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
And I tell you when.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
No, brother, Sure you're keeping your own gun in Rhine. Sure,
but you got one in your horse.
Speaker 6 (17:54):
Can now.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
See you can't say I'm killing it.
Speaker 6 (17:58):
At our man.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Alright, that's the way you want it. Don't move your marches, brother,
get under arrest for murder.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Now you drop that gun, not hardly?
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Are you all right now?
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Yeah, I'm alright kidding. Uh sho didn't prove much to me.
He proved one thing in it. What that a bullet
killer man?
Speaker 4 (18:46):
And he had to die to do that.
Speaker 7 (18:50):
Yeah, m.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Gunsmoke. We're used and directed by Norman McDonald. Stars William
Conrad as Matt Dylan US Marshall. Featured in the cast
were Barley Bear as Chester, Awry mcneer as Doc, and
Georgia Ellis that's Kiddy George Wall Speaking. Join us again
next week for another specially transcribed story on gun smoke.
(20:14):
This is the United States Armed Forces Radio and Television Service.
Around god City and in the territory on West. There
is just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers.
And that's where the US Marshal and the smell of
guns smoke, Gun Smoke, presented by Army in Europe Magazine,
(00:31):
a monthly feature magazine for the use of a soldier
and civilians Starrying William Conrad, the story of the violin
that moved west with Young America.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
And the story of a man who moved with him.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
I'm that man, Matt Dillon, United States Marshall, the first
man they looked for and the less they want to meet.
It's a chance at job, but it makes a man
watchful and a little lone man.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
Who bring anything.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Alright, you sing out.
Speaker 5 (01:25):
If you want me, I'll be overhead with hi.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
You do well, kidny.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
It appears I'm not an invisible man.
Speaker 6 (01:36):
After all.
Speaker 5 (01:38):
I wasn't ignoring you, Doc, I was just too busy,
as thou art old, and it's not my advanced age
in state of detripeture.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
Well, he'll never get old, Doc.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
It to arn me. Used to hope I don't get
so old.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
A pretty girl won't say that too, whether she means it.
Speaker 5 (01:52):
Another oh I damn man, it provided I am one
of the three. Once you're talking to.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
One of them, kiddy, you are the most beautiful.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Yeay that you and me are gonna have a drink.
Speaker 5 (02:02):
How lucky fink I put a twife in the last
dollar and leave me alone.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Don't you call me Simon just a killer? You keep
your pants on that chair, old timer, and you keep
your mouth old turble wise.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
I can make it easy about it.
Speaker 5 (02:15):
Look meet it, kids, before you get into trouble.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
I said we're gonna have a drink and her ideals.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Now come on, let go.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
I mean somebody having a little trouble here's mad.
Speaker 5 (02:26):
Will you tell him to leave me alone?
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Lady says, keep your hands off, kidd.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Now, don't you start calling meat kid?
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Now, what's your name?
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Brabble?
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Just brabble, that's all yah know? And die? Don't you
any law against it? And not unless you keep act
in the way you were a minute ago. What do
you want me to do? Kiddy?
Speaker 5 (02:47):
Just get him out of here. He hasn't got enough
sense to take no for an answer.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
You hurt her brother. You better go someplace else.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
You think you can push people around? Don't you just
because you're the law.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Nobody's pushing him.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
You all think get pretty smart calling me kid and
run along. Study Maybe I ain't fixing the run. Now
what do you think about that?
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Brother?
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Oh, you better quit over your head.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
I don't appear to you.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Nobody asked, and I'll prove it to you.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
I did prove it to all of mine, and you
go ahead and improved it. But right, brother, you move
your hand any closer to that gun and I'll slap
the teeth right out.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Of your head.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
You afraid to draw against me, Marshall, Now you.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Half baked young idiot. Now you give me that gun.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Git back.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
You ain't gonna treat me like no kid.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
I told you they keep your hand away, all right?
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Get up, bro, Oh you're not hurt. Come I get up.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Keep give me my gun.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
You come around in the morning, you can have it back.
By that you're cooled off, you can show a little sense.
You made a big mistake, Marshals. You should have drawn on.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
I mean when you had the chance.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
It'll look different to you in the morning. Brother. Now
you'll go somewhere and sleep it off.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Now, sure, run along, sonny, Is that what you're saying?
And I'll tell you something, all of you, you're gonna
be whistling a different tune before I leave this town.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
You just wait and see.
Speaker 6 (04:29):
You gonna be a.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Mighty storry man, Marshall before I'm through. See, i'd hate
and meet run like that very often.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Man. Oh yeah, he's a scared kid, duck, that's what's
wrong with him. And he's scared mostly that somebody will
find it out.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
What chances are you leave town about even coming around
to get his guns?
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Now, kiddy, he'll be around to get it before he
leaves down.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
He'll use it right, What do you mean, man, use
it on the whole be more likely?
Speaker 3 (05:28):
You know what you's done?
Speaker 7 (05:29):
Spot at night like this is the best time of
the whole day.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
My great Chester does look better and the tacting well.
Speaker 7 (05:38):
Yes, or but it ain't only that things clapped down,
But this time night folks goes to bed and kind
of put their meanness away.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
For a while.
Speaker 7 (05:48):
Maybe some of 'em do does get the chance to settle.
The breeze comes in off the prairie all fresh and cool,
the stars comes out, the moon right is one way Chester?
Speaker 2 (06:01):
What's the many? Had I heard something?
Speaker 7 (06:04):
M had you hear that h anything like somebody grown
in there. I come on, uh, who look uh somebody
laying away on the ground.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Huh uh uh huh, that's strike a match Chester. W
Y's right. And then.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Why that Walley Stirk, Yeah, looks like he's coming around.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Walley. Huh mm. Wally Matt Tella that you alright? Mm? Wally?
Can you hear me? Wallach uh marshal Yeah, what happened?
I don't know. Somebody hit me back to the head
or who was it?
Speaker 5 (06:51):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Oh, it was in the Long Branch when poker and
I come out and they started down the street.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Be my money? Where is my money?
Speaker 3 (07:07):
I had more than a hundred dollars. I wonder that
poker game.
Speaker 7 (07:11):
Well, the way your pocket just turned inside out, I
doubt you got it.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
Now.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Somebody was laying for me out here in the dark,
and that share looks that way, and I didn't know
it better than this stuff. And talk to talk to
who Gene Prebble. She stopped me and started making up
to me and let somebody slug it from behind it.
That's right, and that's happened around there before.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
You know. There's a lot of little tricks like that.
It means she set me.
Speaker 7 (07:40):
Up for it, like I passed them up a tree there.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
You think you can stand up on me? Yeah, I
just think so.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Said right now, I bet the man had done. It's
that fella she's been hanging around with her lately. My fella,
I know some young whipper's nupper calls himself Robbo.
Speaker 7 (08:20):
We see it, miss noon?
Speaker 2 (08:21):
How a lot of ladies set the third door back?
That the land lady's a caution? How it was that
kind of a place? Chester?
Speaker 3 (08:30):
My?
Speaker 6 (08:34):
Yeah, what is it?
Speaker 3 (08:35):
It's Marshall Dell and I wanna talk to you. Jena
just met you better stand back Chester.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
You may be in there with her, yes.
Speaker 6 (08:44):
Sure, well, ain't every day the Marshall come calling on
a girl.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
You might have wait? Come in, Jenna.
Speaker 6 (08:59):
Well, Marshall, thank you?
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Uh you hear a lit gina? Who you talking to?
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Oh? Hello? Brother? And would you let him in for just.
Speaker 8 (09:15):
Come in Bob?
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (09:16):
I I couldn't do nothing.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
What's the idea of Marshall? Which one of you has
the money? What money? The money you took from Wallace Stark?
Speaker 8 (09:23):
We don't know nothing about that.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
What are you up to? Marshall?
Speaker 3 (09:26):
You made a mistake, doesn't vir Jinna. Wally Stek knows you.
You always used to pick strangers when you were working
at with your old partner.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
What's he talking about.
Speaker 6 (09:34):
I don't know, Bobo. I don't know nothing about what
partner noboud.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
His name was Big Rad.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Jenny was pretty friendly with him til I run him
out of town last year.
Speaker 8 (09:44):
Well, I didn't know what kind of man you was.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Didn't ji Jina?
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Where'd you go tonight when you was out so long?
Speaker 6 (09:51):
No place id I just talked to them friends like
I told you, weren't.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
You were her brother?
Speaker 5 (09:55):
No?
Speaker 2 (09:55):
I wasn't.
Speaker 8 (09:58):
What friends, Gina, just some some girls I know that
worked down at the Long Branch and some other places
down the street.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
You weren't in the Long Branch when you ran in
the Walley's Stirk. You were in the alley.
Speaker 6 (10:08):
I'd been there though.
Speaker 8 (10:09):
I I I was coming home taking the short cutting.
Speaker 6 (10:12):
Wally stopped me.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Uh uh, he says, you stopped him.
Speaker 8 (10:16):
I I just said hello, and he he wanted to talk.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
And while you were talking to him, somebody stepped up
behind and slugged him in the back of the head.
Speaker 6 (10:23):
I don't know nothing about that, Marshall.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
You were there, say it was dark.
Speaker 8 (10:27):
I I didn't see nothing.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
It wasn't that dark. I know that Jenna.
Speaker 6 (10:35):
He'd kill me.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
He said he'd kill me if I told anybody who
was gonna kill you?
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Now, what are you talking about it?
Speaker 8 (10:40):
I didn't want nothing to do with him, Barbera, Honestly
I didn't. I was scared to death when I heard
he was back. And then he found me and he
threatened me.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
It made big red.
Speaker 8 (10:48):
Uh he'll kill me if he knows I told you.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
You know where he is now?
Speaker 5 (10:55):
Yeah, you rocking the little sneeze.
Speaker 6 (10:58):
You didn't know him.
Speaker 8 (10:59):
Braba, Oh he top and he and he's mean and
you're just the kid. And I didn't want you to
get hurried out of here.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Ester take her outside.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
Uh, this is mom, Bubble, get out to me yet.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Go on, you know I'll be out in a minute.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
All right, Marshall, you know you pushed me just as
far as you're going to.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Marshall.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Now, you made it so I'll be a laughing stock
all over town.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
You're shouldn't have taken up with a girl like her brother,
and you shouldn't have been born. I'm gonna prove that
to you.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Michall, it's the last thing I ever do.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
And her brother, the next time you make a move
to her that kind of yours, it probably will be
the last thing you ever do.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
You're gonna pay, Michell, and you're gonna pay plenty. I'll
show you what I am.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
You don't have to show me, brother, I already know
(12:09):
it's cards. He's so mad.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
Hey, you wanted to play another game? Mad talk?
Speaker 2 (12:13):
How many times do I have to beat you before
your kids up?
Speaker 7 (12:16):
When the cards been running against that's oh, sugar, just.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
One more man, alright, go ahead and be able. Ah, yeah, sir,
that's sir. Do you mind going over to Sam's Ways
and bringing some supper for the prisoner?
Speaker 7 (12:27):
Oh? I should oh uh be all right to get
eat a little smack alling that, Yes.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
M let's you see.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
And then he got locked up mat a man called
Big Red. He's waiting trial for robbing while they stir
a couple.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Of days ago. M m oh, yes, just heard about that. Yeah,
I figure he'll be convicted on the evidence. He should
have been sent up years ago. Mm no ah, uh
you look at this hand now, that should be a
good one. Dark you doubt it? Yeah, y you claim,
and I stacked or not yet. Just wait til the
other hand turns up.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
And if it's us that your poor loser, O, my boy,
I haven't lost yet.
Speaker 6 (13:07):
Uh they're sure going to.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Her though, whenever the hand I've got here, that was
our back mass.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
You stay here, doctor, I watch it out.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Hold it, Marshall, cause right way, uh, brother him to
turn around.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
He's the gun I got in the back, and I'll
take that gun. Ain't yours? You know? Mine really up
to brother, I'm right.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Out to night, Marshall, and I'm even in this town
something to remember me by. I just killed big ready well,
I shot him through the cell winder, just like a
jetting prairie dog, you crazy fool. And now I'm gonna
pull down a show for the boys at the Long Branch.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
I'm gonna make that Marshall dance for you.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
I've given you the older chance. I'm going to brovo.
You had your last one and.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
You forgot something, Martial.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
It's a gun I'm holding in your back. Now, stop walking,
(14:33):
just keep walking, Marshally.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
You havn't done a rough road, Brobo. This is about
your last chance to turn back straight ahead. You're a fool. Kid.
Don't you call me kid?
Speaker 1 (14:44):
And after what I'm doing tonight, go on, HESI You're
good forget that night quick five.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
I don't ask back you back.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
To say girls went along girly. Maybe I'll my time
for you later.
Speaker 5 (15:08):
Look, brother, I didn't mean what I sat there other night.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
I ain't to let him go. He did.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Look you and meet me that I have and go
somewhere with me. Doctor, I don't want your opportune.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
I'll be there.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
You better know where this kid is. Right train ahead,
Marshall right open in the middle of a story.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
We want them all to get a good look at this.
I'm gonna show him something they won't forget. Well they
started to do real fine.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
Written and everybody listen.
Speaker 6 (15:44):
I got something to show you, ma'am.
Speaker 8 (15:48):
You all know this man, but I.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Bet you didn't know he could dance, now, didn't I
got the Marshall right where I wanted.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
You know something.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
He don't even look half way big no more?
Speaker 2 (16:07):
All right, stay back, everybody. He just killed big Red.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
You all thought I was a kid.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
What do you think now?
Speaker 2 (16:16):
I'd still think it, brother, and a scared one of
the boot. You shut up, Marshall. You killed big Red.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
But why don't you tell him how he shut him
through the cell window. Big Red didn't have a gun.
That's how brave this kid is. Stopped calling me that,
and he ambushed me, hitting the dark and stuck a
gun in my back. You sure asking for I hadn't
shoot kid? He wanted to prove something to him. That'll
prove plenty. An unarmed man in the back, you're a
(16:45):
sneak any other coward?
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Brother, you shut up? You want him to remember you?
They will, all right, They will hang a name on
you before you even get out of town. Shot two
men in the back because he was afraid to stand
up and call him.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
I ain't afraid, all right, prove it.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
Then you put my gone back in our horseter and
you have to stand up and face mate.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
You think I'm crazy?
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Now, I just like get scared, and so does everybody
else here. Have to lie or look at 'em that.
You tell alright, alright, there's your gun.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
And then you turn around, not till I get across
the room.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Don't you move till I get old with you.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
And I tell you when.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
No, brother, Sure you're keeping your own gun in Rhine. Sure,
but you got one in your horse.
Speaker 6 (17:54):
Can now.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
See you can't say I'm killing it.
Speaker 6 (17:58):
At our man.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Alright, that's the way you want it. Don't move your marches, brother,
get under arrest for murder.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Now you drop that gun, not hardly?
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Are you all right now?
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Yeah, I'm alright kidding. Uh sho didn't prove much to me.
He proved one thing in it. What that a bullet
killer man?
Speaker 4 (18:46):
And he had to die to do that.
Speaker 7 (18:50):
Yeah, m.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Gunsmoke. We're used and directed by Norman McDonald. Stars William
Conrad as Matt Dylan US Marshall. Featured in the cast
were Barley Bear as Chester, Awry mcneer as Doc, and
Georgia Ellis that's Kiddy George Wall Speaking. Join us again
next week for another specially transcribed story on gun smoke.
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